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THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



said he, "I saw it approach, awed and humbled, the threshold 

 of the watery immensity, to whose immeasurable volume and il- 

 limitable expanse, awful as had been its power, and terrible as 



had been its fury, its flood was but a drop. And I felt my heart 

 suffused with purest gratitude to Him whose hand had protected 

 us, and who had enabled us to pierce the Dark Continent from 

 east to west, and to trace its mightiest river to its Ocean bourne." 



